Rosamund Pike

A combination of beauty, brains and talent, English actress Rosamund Pike began her ascent to stardom even as she was in the process of earning a degree from Oxford College. Pike vaulted directly from...
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Benedict Cumberbatch's wartime drama The Imitation Game looks set to dominate the upcoming Empire Awards after scooping six nominations. The biopic of codebreaker Alan Turing, which failed to score any big prizes at the Academy Awards on Sunday (22Feb15), will compete against Boyhood, Interstellar, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes for the Best Film title.
The drama is also nominated for Best British Film, Best Thriller, Best Actor for Cumberbatch, Best Actress for Keira Knightley and Best Director for Morten Tyldum.
It is closely followed by The Hobbit finale, Kingsman: The Secret Service, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which scored four nods each.
Cumberbatch will compete against Bradley Cooper (American Sniper), Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies), and Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) for the Best Actor title, while Knightley is up against Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl), Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow), and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) for the Best Actress prize.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu was missed off the Best Director shortlist for his work on Birdman, and nods were instead given to Christopher Nolan (Interstellar), Richard Linklater (Boyhood), Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), and The Hobbit's Peter Jackson.
The Imitation Game will compete against Paddington, Under the Skin, The Theory of Everything, and Kingsman: The Secret Service for Best British Film.
The winners, which are decided by public vote, will be announced on 29 March (15) in London.

"I've watched it all my life and sort of marveled at the California sunshine and now here I am and there's no sun! It's not going to dampen our spirits, I'm here to have a good time." British Gone Girl star and Best Actress nominee Rosamund Pike cannot believe it's raining at her first Academy Awards.

The nominee gift bag at Sunday's (22Feb15) Oscars ceremony is packed with $160,000 worth of goodies, including a session with a psychic and a luxury break in Italy.
Bosses behind the 87th Academy Awards are ensuring all those competing for accolades, including stars such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne and Rosamund Pike, are treated to luxury gifts and vouchers.
The top presents include a $21,000 voucher for a session with psychic Olessia Kantor, a train ride through the Canadian Rockies worth $16,000 and a three night stay in Tuscany, Italy worth $1,600. Other treats include a silver necklace, a year's free hire of an Audi car and a lifestyle make-over package.
A representative for the goodie bags' distributors, Distinctive Assets, says, "We are simply saying thank you to people who are donating their time free of charge to high-profile events. You don't cease to be eligible for gratitude simply because you're rich and famous."

"She is gorgeous, super talented, super funny, smart, she just had a baby, she couldn't look more beautiful... I'm the luckiest guy ever to be able to have been in a movie with her and been able to be intimate with her without a lawsuit or a restraining order." Neil Patrick Harris on his sex scene with Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl.

Bradley Cooper has been tipped to triumph over Michael Keaton and Eddie Redmayne at the Oscars by U.S. film fans, who have predicted his war drama American Sniper will dominate this year's (15) ceremony. U.S. moviegoers were asked to give their tips for the upcoming Academy Awards as part of the annual Reuters/Ipsos Oscars poll, and American Sniper came out as the favourite to win the Best Picture prize.
They also predicted Cooper will see off hot competition from Birdman star Keaton and The Theory of Everything's Redmayne to win Best Actor.
Reese Witherspoon is tipped to take home her second Oscar for her role in Wild, with the poll suggesting the Best Actress category will be a tight race between her and Gone Girl's Rosamund Pike.
The Oscars will be handed out in a ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on 22 February (15).

Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike likes to get to awards shows early so she can pump breast milk before the ceremony starts. The organised new mum comes prepared when she hits the red carpet, so she can sneak off after posing for pictures and chatting with reporters and pump.
The 36 year old tells U.S. chat show host Ellen DeGeneres she's the "uncool" star who shows up very early.
She adds, "Then I disappear off and I set up a sort of station backstage somewhere. It started off very organised, y'know, I'd bring a robe and I'd bring all the kind of gear and I'd change into slippers. And, like, at the BAFTAs (on) Sunday night... I just robed up in the chairman of the Royal Opera House's office and just tried to put on the robe and... I couldn't do the buttons, and whipped it off.
"I was just sitting there, butt naked, with the double breast pump. If this guy had seen the kind of scene in his office, it was as underhand as if we'd been taking drugs or something."
Pike's interview with DeGeneres aired in America on Thursday (12Feb15).

Costumes worn by stars including Eddie Redmayne, Angelina Jolie, Rosamund Pike, Michael Keaton and Meryl Streep in their Oscar-nominated films have gone on display in Los Angeles just days before the Academy Awards. The exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising features outfits worn in many of the movies set to compete at the 2015 Oscars ceremony later this month (Feb15).
Keaton's Birdman superhero costume is on show, along with outfits worn by fellow Best Actor nominee Redmayne in The Theory of Everything, dresses sported by Pike in Gone Girl, and costumes from The Imitation Game.
The black gown and horned headpiece worn by Jolie in Maleficent is part of the show, along with the dress worn by Streep as The Witch in Into The Woods.
Other items on display include costumes from The Grand Budapest Hotel, Mr. Turner, and Inherent Vice, which will all compete for the Costume Design Oscar with Into The Woods and Maleficent.
The show launched on Tuesday (10Feb15) and runs until 25 April (15).

Bridget Jones once said, "I suddenly realised that unless something changed soon I was going to live a life where my major relationship was with a bottle of wine... and I'd finally die, fat and alone, and be found three weeks later half-eaten by alsatians. Or I was about to turn into Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction." As someone perpetually spending date night with nothing but a bottle of wine, this quote hits close to home. Instead of running from it this Valentine's Day, I've decided to embrace it. Here's how you can, too:
1. Buy a bottle of wine.*
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*Quantity varies depending on the individual; some may need more than just one. We are not here to judge.
2. Figure out which Valentine's Day movie is right for you.
(500) Days of Summer
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For those looking for a bit of whimsy with their despair.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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For those wanting to completely erase a recent and painful relationship from their minds.
The Way We Were
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For those at peace with their failed relationship, but who still like to think back on how things used to be.
Blue Valentine
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For those looking for proof that relationships don't work.
Lost in Translation
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For those looking for to bask in the emptiness that only Sofia Coppola could bring.
Closer
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For those looking for a bit of a screwed-up story filled with deceit and raunchiness.
Annie Hall
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For those planning to cook lobster for one, or who want a laugh instead of a wallowing, revenge-filled night.
Kill Bill
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For those looking for an action-packed instead of a pity-partied night of revenge. Or for those who want to feel a little better about their own baby daddy issues.
Gone Girl
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For those looking for proof that all relationships not only don't work, but are also secretly dysfunctional, psychotic messes.
Fatal Attraction
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For those who just no longer give a hoot. If you need to watch this movie on Valentine's Day, we won't judge you. Get all the crazy out of your system before it's too late.
3. Enjoy. And remember, Valentine's Day is a bull shit holiday anyway. And you're fabulous, just as you are.
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British actress Rosamund Pike struggled to stay focused during phone interviews following her Oscar nomination last month (Jan15) after her son's toy car became entangled in her hair. The former Bond girl is up for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Gone Girl, but admits she was blindsided by the nomination last month (Jan15).
As a result, Pike was left juggling her newborn son and two-year-old boy Solo alone as the congratulations started coming in early on 15 January (15).
She explains, "I was so unprepared for that morning, I'd looked at my schedule and I'd said to my other half (Robie Uniacke), 'Well, look, I've got a completely free morning tomorrow, you take your time and I'll look after both boys.'
"He went off to play tennis, I was at home, suddenly not realising when you're a nominee, you have to do interviews, so I had to do an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. I was in the bed, I hadn't gotten up, I had the two boys... so I'm trying to hold it together and talk with sort of poise and aplomb to The Hollywood Reporter, and meanwhile, what they can't see is that my whole body is being used as a car track..."
Pike reveals disaster struck mid-interview as Solo ran his little toy car over her head - and it got stuck in her hair, hours before she was due to attend the Critics Choice Awards.
She continues, "I'm lying there... trying to muster the requisite kind of words, and suddenly I hear the unmistakable sound of a car engine in difficulty and I realised that this new battery-operated car (toy) is becoming entangled in my hair...
"I have a dreadlock of hair wrapped around this wheel axle of the battery-operated car and I do not know what on earth I'm going to do. There's the Critics Choice Awards that night, Valentino (designers) were about to arrive to try on a dress and I am standing there with this car attached to my head... I had to cut it (tangled hair) out."

Summary

A combination of beauty, brains and talent, English actress Rosamund Pike began her ascent to stardom even as she was in the process of earning a degree from Oxford College. Pike vaulted directly from university and a handful of minor roles on U.K. television to a breakout role opposite Pierce Brosnan's James Bond in the 007 action-adventure "Die Another Day" (2002). Unlike so many "Bond girls" before her who quickly sank into obscurity, Pike continued to hone her craft and garner attention in such period pieces as "The Libertine" (2004) and "Pride and Prejudice" (2005), starring alongside established talents like Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley. In addition to making a name for herself on the stages of London's West End, the burgeoning actress received critical acclaim for supporting turns in several independent features, "An Education" (2009) and "Barney's Version" (2010), among them. Balancing the smaller budget projects with more blockbuster fare, she took on significant roles in the Greek mythology fantasy-adventure "Wrath of the Titans" (2012) and the action-packed Tom Cruise thriller "Jack Reacher" (2012). Determined to establish herself as more than a pretty face, Pike shrewdly bolstered her artistic reputation even as she continued to build a solid profile in mainstream entertainments.